
CHINA CUTS RUSSIA OUT: 7,000km Mega-Route COLLAPSES Putin's Railways
Aug 19, 2026
A massive geopolitical shift is completely rewriting the map of global trade. In an unprecedented move to avoid sanctions and war zones, China and the West are uniting to completely bypass Russian territory via a new 7,000km "Middle Corridor." As Beijing redirects its massive container fleets south, Russian Railways is facing a catastrophic internal collapse, with profits plummeting 22-fold. With $1.4 billion infrastructure upgrades in Kazakhstan and untraceable fiber optic networks laid beneath the Caspian Sea, Moscow's historic "Land Bridge" is officially destroyed. In this exclusive Military Politics OSINT breakdown, we analyze how Putin just lost his most powerful strategic leverage over global logistics.
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